With the whole Mark Sanford thing going down today it was not hard to lose sight of other, more important things going on in the world, like, oh yeah, Iran! And that situation just gets more and more depressing.

There have been a few new developments 24 hours in regards to the uprising in Iran. Here's a brief recap.

Over the past couple of days the world has been captivated by the death of a young woman, Neda, who was gunned down on a Tehran street by Iranian forces. Now details about her are beginning to emerge.

Hilarious Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was already in a spot of trouble for sleeping with an 18-year-old model. And now he is promising to "hang tough," despite new "sleeping with prostitutes" allegations. Way to go Italy!

Unless you tuned out completely over the weekend you've seen the haunting video of a young woman named Neda dying on a Tehran street after being shot in the heart. She is now the immortal face of a revolutionary movement.

After being held hostage by the Taliban for seven months in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Pulitzer-winning New York Times reporter David Rohde escaped from a compound to freedom. He apparently just "climbed over the wall" but still: badass happy ending! [NYT]

In a highly anticipated speech that was actually carried live on CNN, Iran's Supreme Ayatollah claimed that his country's recent election was legitimate and called for the protests, which he blamed on the U.S., Britain and Israel, to end. [CNN]

Ever since we first heard that The Daily Show was sending Jason Jones to Iran to cover the election there, we've been anxious to see if they'd be able to find comedy in what was happening there. They did.

Bill Clinton has this foundation that he does a lot of traveling and fundraising for. Recently, he went to Argentina to dine with the president. Then he had a "noche de soltero" with a "morocha" known for being very "pulposa."

All of a sudden, thanks to Twitter and Bill Keller, Iran is like the biggest story of the year! What's the latest? Killings in the street, a president on the run, media in peril, and a Florida 2000 recount replay:

The BBC reports that Iran's state radio claims that seven were killed during overnight protests.

Twitter announced late today that it was canceling a scheduled service outage for maintanance so that the protesters in Iran can continue to use the service to organize and communicate with the outside world. [Twitter Blog]

New York Times executive editor Bill Keller has parachuted into Iran to lend his considerable expertise to his paper's coverage of the disputed election. He should have stayed home.

A guy in Miami made up a fake woman's online profile and lured Fidel Castro's son into sexy internet chats. Big news, or just like every other unintentionally male-on-male sexy internet chat?

Stop worrying, everyone. Even though Iran's election results have never been announced so quickly, and even though the loser has been placed under house arrest, the reelection of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was what the people wanted. A poll proves it!

Current TV freelancers Laura Ling and Euna Lee are locked in a North Korean prison. Do you know whose fault this is? That's right, the internet's! It's true.

If you're like most Americans you spend your summer weekends tuning out the rest of the world. In the event you turned on your computer today and wondered, "What the hell is going on in Iran?"—Here's a summary.

Both President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and challenger Mirhossein Mousavi won 60% of the vote in today's Iranian elections. Hooray for democracy! Iran does elections just like America does, too: with crazy, confusing ballots.

Man, Europe. We elected this classy guy after you made fun of us for years about that "cowboy" (btw: here in America, only morons thought he was a "cowboy"), and now your leaders are all running around with naked ladies.

[President Obama received the red carpet treatment at the King Khaled airport earlier today after arriving in Saudi Arabia; Photo via Getty]